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“It’s like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn sentences, which are the chords. And then you talk extemporaneously with the horn. It’s a wonderful thing to speak extemporaneously, which is something I’ve never gotten the hang of. But musically I love to talk just off the top of my head. And that’s what jazz music is all about.” -
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Tuesday, 09 February 2010 |
New York Jazz
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Written by Ronaldo Oregano
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“Mr. Sánchez plays with unforced please visit www.davidsanchezmusic.com. authority and a searching, smoldering cadence.” - The New York Times  David Sánchez [photo by Devin DeHaven] Grammy Award–winning saxophonist David Sánchez, one of the finest progressive players on the jazz scene, will appear with his quartet at the Jazz Standard in Manhattan on Thursday, February 4th through Saturday, Ferbruary 6th. David’s 2008 album Cultural Survival was the latest in a bountiful discography (eight albums as a leader plus sideman appearances with Danilo Perez, Roy Haynes, Kyle Eastwood, and many more). David Sánchez's quartet includes Lage Lund on guitar, Orlando Le Fleming on bass, and Antonio Sanchez on drums. |
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Written by Ronaldo Oregano
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Tuesday, 26 January 2010 |
 Myron Wadlen © Paul Elledge
Myron Walden has achieved acclaim with his dynamic, propulsive and evocative jazz compositions, and on Friday, January 29th and Saturday, January 30th he will bring his quintet for two nights at New York City's Smoke. Myron Walden's 'Momentum' is a quintet featuring Myron on tenor joined by Darren Barrett on trumpet, Eden Ladin on piano, Yasushi Nakamura on bass, and John Davis on drums. They will be performing Myron's compositions from his new release Momentum. Inspired by the Miles Davis band of the 1960s, the music allows the band to create their own momentum, with insight and reference to Miles, Wayne Shorter, and Herbie Hancock, resulting in a quintet bristling with energy. |
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Written by Ronaldo Oregano
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Sunday, 17 January 2010 |
 Oliver Lake
In 1981 an audience of three thousand gathered in the cathedral of St. John the Divine to hear what Max Roach called a “Grand Collaboration”: a concert by M’Boom and the World Saxophone Quartet. These legendary ensembles will reunite at Birdland on Tuesday, January 19the through Saturday, January 23rd. Roach founded M’Boom in 1970, as the first ensemble consisting entirely of Western and non-Western percussion instruments, ranging from vibraphone, marimba, and tympani to steel drums, timbales, and glockenspiels. M’Boom, which has numbered as many as 10 players, now includes three of its founding member, Joe Chambers, Warren Smith, and Ray Mantilla, along with Eli Fountain, and Steve Barrios. The World Saxophone Quartet, founded in 1976, is the most celebrated saxophone ensemble in jazz history, and is made up of three founding members: David Murray, Hamiet Bluiett, and Oliver Lake, plus James Carter in the seat originally occupied by Julius Hemphill. These two ensembles fuse together with an almost mystical cohesion, intensity, and flat-out joy. Birdland is the starting point of a tour that will take these esemble to Milan, Italy on February 14th; Paris, France on February 16th; and Hamburg, Germany on February18-19. |
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Written by Andrea Canter, Contributing Editor
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Saturday, 09 January 2010 |
 Fred Hersch©Andrea Canter Since his first appearances as leader and soloist nearly twenty-five years ago, jazz piano master Fred Hersch has earned critical accolades as: “a master who plays it his way" (Ben Ratliff, The New York Times); “a pristine pianist with a poet’s soul--a pair of qualities that combine to especially dazzling effect" (Joan Anderman, The Boston Globe); "a brilliant technician, a thoughtful, elegant improviser and an artist with a curious ear” (Fernando Gonzalez, The Miami Herald); “...one of the leading lights of this generation's pianists” (Fred Bouchard, Jazz Times); “one of the most sensitive and genuinely lyrical players in jazz” (Bob Blumenthal, The Atlantic Monthly); "...a constantly inventive soloist” (Leonard Feather, The Los Angeles Times); and simply, “...a poet of a pianist.”(Whitney Balliett, The New Yorker). Despite health crises in 2008 that threatened his life as well as career, Fred Hersch released two acclaimed recordings in 2009 and garnered praise for residencies at Jazz Standard in April and at the Village Vanguard in July. Now he returns to the Vanguard to kickoff another year of performing, in the stellar company of Drew Gress and Paul Motian, January 12-17. |
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